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critical 9.3

CVE-2009-1492 in the critical feed json

The getAnnots Doc method in the JavaScript API in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause…

published 2009-04-30 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-1489

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
25.5%
EPSS 25.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The getAnnots Doc method in the JavaScript API in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a PDF file that contains an annotation, and has an OpenAction entry with JavaScript code that calls this method with crafted integer arguments.

Patch / fix

  • acroread RHEL 3 EXTRAS 8.1.5-2
  • acroread RHEL 4 EXTRAS 8.1.5-1.el4
  • acroread RHEL 5 EXTRAS 8.1.5-1.el5
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 3 EXTRAS 8.1.5-2
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 4 EXTRAS 8.1.5-1.el4
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 8.1.5-1.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0478

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-1492 updated cvss 6.8

acroread: multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader 8.1.4

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.5-2, acroread-plugin 8.1.5-2 Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.5-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.5-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.5-2, acroread-plugin 8.1.5-2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.5-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.5-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 8.1.5-1.el5, acroread-plugin 8.1.5-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.5-2, acroread-plugin 8.1.5-2
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.5-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.5-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 8.1.5-1.el5, acroread-plugin 8.1.5-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.5-2, acroread-plugin 8.1.5-2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.5-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.5-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0478

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-8569)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

25.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-8569 Adobe Reader 8.1.4/9.1 - 'GetAnnots()' Remote Code Execution remote, 2009-04-29
  • packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0904-exploits/getannots.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34736 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.